I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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